Satelliet-grondstation voor internationaal telefoonverkeer tussen Amerika en Europa
Polygoon-Profilti (producent)
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A ground station has been built in Burum, Friesland, to make telephone calls via satellite. The radio telescope is connected to the Intelsat IV satellite. All calls to and from the Netherlands are routed through the International Traffic Control Centre in Amsterdam, which has a cable connection with the ground station in Burum. SHOTS: Frisian meadow landscape with tractor and hay shaker and the radio-telescope with parabolic antenna with a diameter of 28.5 metres; man walking alongside the telescope; schematic representation of satellite traffic; int. traffic centre Amsterdam with several telephonists and fragments of the voices of telephonists; int. control room Burum with man behind control panel.
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